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This birthday card I made for my husband's aunt Hasi. I put my heart into this card, because I just love her so much. She's just about the sweetest person I know. And I knew she would appreciate it, because she's crafty herself with sewing and patchwork. I was to happy that I could give her some joy with this card on her 70th birthday.
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I just wanted to show you a cute cupcake card my best friend Anja made for me. She knitted that! Can you believe it?! Isn't it cute as can be?? My best friend Christine sent me a nice birthday card too that plays "Girls just wanna have fun". ;-)
I bought this wee mini album 7 Gypsies in Simea's Shop and just had to do something with it right away. It was just too cute to let sit. :-)
Wow... did I mention it was a long trip there and back? ;-) Anyway, for me, it was worth it! Take a look at some of the classes.
This is Simea! She's SO cool and inspiring!
And this is the oh so cool Adventcalendar she taught a class for with matchboxes...lots and LOTS of matchboxes. :-) It's so pretty!
So, this is sweet Hanna teaching her advanced scrapbooking class. She just couldn't be sweeter, love her to death!
And this is Hanna's awesome layout! This girl has got major talent! You should see her mini-albums, just stunning!
And this was my basic scrapbooking intro class, where I had some very sweet students. I had so much fun with this class! I also held a card class, but no fotos there, sorry.
Julia (the photographer) didn't have anyone to take photos at her mini-album for men class. :-( We'll get her next time with my Canon Rebel XT SLR! ;-) Yeaaahhhh!
This weekend I was off to Simea's Scrapday in Lörrach to help out with a few classes. Now, the train connection between Stuttgart and Lörrach is not great and I had to change trains 5 times going there, which turned out okay. It was my birthday, it was the most disgusting weather you could imagine, with wind and rain, but it was all good. Simea and her daughter Lia picked me up at the train station and we went to her house where I helped her finish up the envelopes of the attendees, while taking all sorts of calls for my birthday and otherwise.
The setup of the workshops was great, because they had lots of large rooms at their community center. Simea had her huge stash in one room to choose from and the basic scrapbooking intro class and marathon card class went quite well.
Then it came time to leave the next day and I got on the train to Karlsruhe and about 5 minutes later...the train stops and I figure...oh well, it must be construction or something. All of a sudden an announcement was made that apparently the train had collided with a horse. One and a half hours went by until we started moving again. The train had hit a pony and kllled it and injured another horse. Of course I missed my connection and got on the next available train to Stuttgart. Go figure, we stop again, due to construction this time. I miss my tube connection and had to wait another 1/2 hour for the freakin tube. So, altogether I was on the "road" about 6 hours. While I was still on the train though, I received a text message from hubby saying "Danny is throwing up, so I can't pick you up from the train station." I thought...oh well....nothing else can really shock me now. I kind of just "gave up" and accepted my fate at that point. I mean, what's the use of getting upset, right? I couldn't change it anyway.
Hopefully I can get some photos from the workshop. I didn't want to take my brand new camera to the workshop for fear it might get stolen or broken, since I don't yet have a case for it so I myself, wasn't able to catch this memory, but one of the other instructors did, so I will post as soon as I get some.
So, that, my friends, was my weekend! Hope yours was a bit better!
Take care,
My mom is getting a very special card from me, because she's quit smoking for 5 weeks now! That is why I just had to make her a card to tell her how very proud I am of her!!!
Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com
This is week 7 of Cathy's class and i'm still not getting tired of it! I just love her layout designs. They're awesome.
Another layout in Cathy Zielske's class at Big Picture Scrapbooking inthe Real World Color section.
Okay folks, yeah, I know....this was uh, 4 years ago? Whatever..so sue me. I've still got a LOT of catching up to do, even though I've done about 700+ layouts since I started scrapping, there are so many photos left to scrap. YIKES!
At any rate, I am utilizing Cathy's class for this, so not only am I becoming pretty darn good at design, but I'm also getting my photos scrapped. YEAHHHH!
So, here it 'tis...
Not too thrilled with the colors I used, but what the hay...
On Monday of this week, I have a private little class (just an overview of what's possible in scrapbooking) to a beautiful young woman in my scrap studio. It was great. She came up with the idea to do a journal jar for her best friend Jessy. Awesome idea! I've never had the occasion to do that for someone,...but it did get me thinking. ;-) We had quite a bit of fun and I was having a hard time trying not to overwhelm her with all my "stuff". But now I believe she's inspired to start scrapbooking, my thoughts exactly. She has a wonderful sense of color and taste, a real "natural" I'd say! Take a look at this amazing project she created.... (with just a little help from me.. ;-).
Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com
This was really so much fun and even though not everyone could make it, it turned out to be a successful and funny evening with my girls. They had lots of fun and can't wait to come back for more classes. Now THAT is a compliment I like to hear! :-) You gals did GREAT!! And it was SO much fun having you!!!
Just an album I made for her boy's 1st day of school... ;-) These are just a few photos of the entire thing.
Beyond Obama, world peace and food for all.... I'm eyeing a beautiful Canon EOS 450d Digital Rebel... YES! THAT, is what I'd like for my birfdayyyy. :-) Maybe if I just close my eyes and wish REEEAAL hard, then I can get one! Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...Tee hee.. Then when I do get it, I have to find me an online photography class where there isn't a waiting list! These classes are so hard to come by! tztztz
Downloaded some free digi stuff yesterday and thought I'd give it a try. It was pretty quick! This is Danny at only a few days old... He was sooooo sweet!
So, I'm caught up and completed all my assignments for these week at the DYL Class. I'm so proud of myself! I'm having a real ball with this and it's really changing my view of design. I'm actually adapting these principles onto my own layouts and I feel that my layouts look so much better!
Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com
Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com
Using lots of white space and that's okay! :-)
Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com
Love how this turned out! This week it's about "space"...using white space effectively...love it!
Sorry for the crooked scan...it really isn't crooked! I promise!
